Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. Degree received December 1989. Major: Twentieth-Century American and British Literature. Minors: Rhetoric and Composition, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, American Literature Before 1914, the Novel. Dissertation: "Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and the Way of the Dandy."

Outstanding Dissertation of the Year, English Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1989

Teacher of the Year Award, presented to the Catawba College faculty member selected by popular vote of the students, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1993-94, and 1994-95

The Swink Prize for Outstanding Classroom Teaching, an annual award presented to the member of the Catawba College faculty who is judged by the Faculty Senate to be an outstanding classroom teacher, 1990-91

Phi Epsilon Award at Catawba College for outstanding character, leadership, and participation in extracurricular activities, 1990

Chair or Associate Chair for sessions at annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994

Reader of articles for Mississippi Quarterly, 1989-

Featured Speaker at Western Regional Meeting of College English Instructors at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, October 6, 1989. Topic: "The Application of the Educare Model to the Community College Curriculum"

Six-week summer grant to study Native American Literature at Poetry Center, University of Arizona, Summer 1992

Presenter of session on journal writing for Covey's "Seven Habits" Workshop, Catawba College School of Business, 1995

Designer of WISER writing workshops for Catawba and Livingstone College faculty, August 1995

Coordinator and grant writer for week-long Luis Rodriguez residency, Catawba College and Rowan County, February 2000

PRESENTATIONS

"Academic Counter-Revolution of the 80's: A View and an Application," a presentation at the Association of General and Liberal Studies National Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, November 1983

"Centering the Freshman Experience: The EDUCARE Program at Catawba College," a presentation at the Third National Conference of the Freshman-Year Experience, University of South Carolina, February 1985

"EDUCARE, a Campus-wide Retention Effort," a panel presentation at the annual meeting of Southern Association of College Admissions Counselors, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 1986

"Integrating the Teaching of Reading and Writing Skills with a College Content Course," a presentation at Old Dominion University's Second Annual Academic skills Conference, Norfolk, November 1986

"Hawthorne as Protomodernist: The Relationship of Flesh and Marble in The Marble Faun," a paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Greensboro, North Carolina, March 1987

"Optimism Through Form: The Mastery of the Conventions of Counterpoint and Fugue in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," a paper presented at the Carson McCullers Symposium, Columbus College, October 1987

"Does This Stuff Mean Anything? Ancient Texts and Catawba College's Freshman Program," a presentation at Workshop on the Freshman Year Program at the Small Liberal Arts College, St. Louis, March 1990

"Teaching Citizenship Through Ancient Texts: A Reading and Writing Approach," a paper presented at the Conference on The Freshman Year Experience, Small College Focus, Baltimore, November 1990

"Achieving Writing Across the Curriculum Through an Interdisciplinary Freshman Program," a paper presented at the Regional Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, College of Charleston, February 1993

"Aristotle, Argumentation, and Citizenship: Developing Reading and Writing Skills," a paper presented at the College Reading Association Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia, November 1993

"The New South Holds the Old South in Its Arms: The Poetry of Cathy Smith Bowers," Catawba College Colloquium on Southern Literature and Culture, October 2000